Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism

Ep 69 - Growing Seedlings and Running Plant Sales w Marla Alexander

Hey friends! I'm super excited to have my friend and fellow herbalist, Marla Alexander, on the show today! In addition to running an herbal seed library, Marla has been g

Ep 68 - Latine Herbalism with Josie Castaneda

Hey friends! Spring is in full swing and we're making lots of headway on some big projects, like our greenhouse build! Today I'm excited to bring you an interview with

Ep 67 - 2026 Homestead and Herb Farm Goals

Hey friends! As promised, we're kicking off our 2026 episodes by diving into our goals for both our homestead and our herb farm! We got really focused when writing up our

Ep 66 - 2025 Wrapped

Hey friends! We hope your holidays were great and that you're getting as excited for 2026 as we are. Before we close out this chapter, I wanted to share a wrap-up episode

Ep 65 - Market Vending Tips with Sara and Mike

Today Mike and I are talking about some of the big things we've learned over the last few years of vending at various farmers markets, festivals, craft fairs, and other e

Ep 64 - Mushroom Foraging with Whitney Johnson

Hey friends! My guest today is Whitney Johnson, also known as the Appalachian Forager. She's here to talk about her beautiful new book, Go Forth and Forage, which is all

Ep 63 - Seed Farming with Dan Brisebois

Hey friends! Hope you're doing well! Spring is poking its head up here but we're still getting snow off and on as well, so we're not able to start planting outdoors yet.

Ep 62 - Traveling Farm Work with James Miller

Today I have a really great guest for you! His name is James Miller and I actually met him as a tattoo client. We did a large piece that took several sessions and so as I

Ep 61 - Italian Folk Healing with Lisa Fazio

Hi, friends! We've been working hard this month getting back into the swing of things. We spent four days vending at various markets this month and March and April are sl

Ep 60 - Tiny Farm Planning with Jill Ragan

Hey friends! Hope you're doing well as we wrap up January here. We have been SUPER busy with some big projects behind the scenes. One of them is that we now have our farm

Ep 59 - Preserving with a Purpose with Sarah Thrush

Hi friends! Welcome to our first episode of 2025! We're getting back to releasing two new episodes a month, and we have some awesome interviews already recorded and ready

Ep 58 - Homestead Chats with Natalie and Sara

Hi friends! I'm back with an awesome repeat guest today -- Natalie, the Alaska Redhead! Natalie is a fellow off-grid homesteader who lives in Alaska and was on the podcas

Ep 57 - Botanical Cocktails with Tenae Stewart

Hi friends! It's been a minute since our last episode but we have lots of fun progress updates to share! Things are moving along nicely with our shop build and we've been

Ep 56 - Next-Level Tools for Your Homestead

We're back with our second episode in our Homestead Tools series! Make sure to check out Episode 53 - Essential Tools for Your Homestead if you haven't already listened t

Ep 55 - Spring Means Worktime

It was a long winter but we're back with some great project updates now that the weather has gotten nicer and we can get back to work on our property! Spring means workti

Ep 54 - Our 2024 Goals

Hi friends! Happy New Year! We're back with our first episode of 2024 where we reflect on what we accomplished in 2023, share some big life events that happened, and then

Ep 53 - Essential Tools for Your Homestead

Hey friends! Mike is back on the podcast with me to discuss essential tools for your homestead. We start off by talking about hand tools and then progress to battery-oper

Ep 52 - Reflections After One Year Living Off-Grid

Hey friends! October 20th marks one year of us living off-grid on our land in Colorado, so we thought it would be nice to take an episode to reflect on everything we've a

Ep 51 - Alaskan Homesteading with Natalie, the Alaska Redhead

Hi friends!! I'm recording this intro on the summer solstice, looking out at the garden and just really loving life at the moment. This weather is absolutely amazing. We'

Ep 50 - Our Off-Grid Infrastructure

Today is our 50th episode!! I have Mike on the podcast with me again and we're diving into all of the different parts of our off-grid infrastructure. We share what has wo